Algorithms and data structures

Integer Optimization addresses a wide spectrum of practically important optimization problems and represents a major challenge for algorithmics.

In the first part, this book analyzes the knowledge discovery process in order to understand the relations between knowledge discovery steps and focusing.

With all of the news about the Internet and the Y2K problem, it is easy to forget that other areas of computer science still exist.

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This book presents the state of the art in software visualization and thus attempts to establish it as a field on its own.

Annually sponsored by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Crypt- ogy (KIISC), the fourth International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC2001) was held at the 63 Building in Seoul, Korea, Dec- ber 6-7, 2001.

The objective of the workshops held in conjunction with ER 2002, the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, was to give participants the opportunitytopresentanddiscussemerginghottopics,thusaddingnewpersp- tives to conceptual modeling.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, ICTCS 2001, held in Torino, Italy in October 2001.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering, WAE 2001, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2001.

After the advent of data mining and its successful application on conventional data, Web-related information has been an appropriate and increasingly popular target of knowledge discovery.

The proceedings of ECML/PKDD2003 are published in two volumes: the P- ceedings of the 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (LNAI 2837) and the Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (LNAI 2838).

E-services, and in particular Web services, are emerging as a promising tech- logy for the e?

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The growth of the Internet and the availability of powerful computers and hi- speed networks as low-cost commodity components are changing the way we do computing.

During the last decade of the twentieth century, computer vision made considerable progress towards the consolidation of its fundaments, in particular regarding the treatment of geometry for the evaluation of stereo image pairs and of multi-view image recordings.

The widespread interest this book has found among professors, scientists and stu- dents working in a variety of fields has made a new edition necessary.

'Network' is a heavily overloaded term, so that 'network analysis' means different things to different people.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Neural N- works (ISNN 2004) held in Dalian, Liaoning, China duringAugust 19-21, 2004.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2003, held in Marseilles, France in October 2003.

The4thWorkshoponInformationSecurityApplications(WISA2003)wassp- sored by the following Korean organizations and government bodies: the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC), the Electronics and TelecommunicationsResearchInstitute(ETRI),andtheMinistryofInformation and Communication (MIC).

The sixth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium was held at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, from 13-18 June 2004.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines.

With the swift development of video imaging technology and the drastic improvements in CPU speed and memory, both video processing and computational video are becoming more and more popular.

Crypto '99, the Nineteenth Annual Crypto Conference, was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

The Conference on Spatial Information Theory - COSIT - grew out of a series of workshops / NATO Advanced Study Institutes / NSF specialist meetings concerned with cognitive and applied aspects of representing large-scale space, particularly geographic space.

The International Conference on Networking (ICN01) is the first conference in its series aimed at stimulating technical exchange in the emerging and important field of networking.

th 2002 DEXA, the 13 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications was held on September 2-6, 2002, at the Universite Aix-Marseille II, France.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines.

It is our great pleasure and honor to organize the First IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV 2000).

The PaCT-2003 (Parallel Computing Technologies) conference was a four-day conference held in Nizhni Novgorod on September 15-19, 2003.

CAiSE 2000 was the 12th in the series of International Conferences on Advanced Information Systems Engineering.

ASIACRYPT 2000 was the sixth annual ASIACRYPT conference.

This volume consists of the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2002), organized under the auspices of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS).

Machine Learning has become a key enabling technology for many engineering applications and theoretical problems alike.

Object detection and recognition is a topic of significant interest in computer and robot vision.